[Alexander Hintenach]

I personally prefer using LiveType if I’m going to do anything with text in FCP. You won’t really be able to do anything large along the lines of scrolling, however, you can make a really stunning look if only approaching a few tracks of text at a time.

LiveType is the most underexploited resource of the FC Studio arsenal. I used it to make some professional looking titles when I was still in my home town – everybody thought I had spent days making what only took me a few minutes to put together. I highly recommend it.

Check it out. If it doesn’t meet your needs, I recommend checking out some Boris plugins.

[Alexander Hintenach]

What video standard did you shoot this to? You always have the option to expand what you didn’t cover by the garbage matte through the motion tab, but the downside is that it is only blowing up the video.

If you don’t want to do that, you can always go into powerpoint or something related. When you go into there, you could make a slide entirely a saturated green or blue. Then save it as a jpeg or what have you, import it, and put the picture into your first video track. Put the track you are matting on track 2. Then key each of them separately.

I use this convoluted method quite often – though I haven’t keyed two different colors. What I suggested is theoretically possible, but I won’t guarantee anything. Hope your problem gets worked out.